Inequality and Poverty Re-Examined

The issues surrounding poverty and inequality continue to be of central concern to academics, politicians and policy makers but the ways in which we seek to study and understand them continue to change over time. This accessible book seeks to provide a guide to some of the new approaches that have been developed in the light of international initiatives to reduce poverty and the notable changes in income inequality and poverty that have occurred across many western countries in recent years. These new approaches have to some degree been facilitated by the emergence of new techniques and a growing availability of data that enable cross national comparisons not only of income but also of measures of welfare such as educational achievement, nutritional status in developing countries and wealth and deprivation indicators in the developed world. Including specially commissioned research from a distinguished list of international authors, this volume makes a real contribution to the public debate surrounding inequality and poverty as well as providing new empirical information about them from around the world. Contributors to this volume - Stephen Bazen, Universite de Savoie, Annecy-le-Vieux, France Alison L. Booth, University of Essex, UK, and at the Australian National University Andrea Brandolini, Economic Research Department of the Bank of Italy, Rome Mark Bryan, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, UK Peter Burton, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada Lorenzo Cappellari, Istituto di Economia dell'Impresa e del Lavoro, Universita Cattolica di Milano, Italy Jean-Yves Duclos, Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada Ann Harding, University of Canberra, Australia Stephen P. Jenkins, University of Essex, UK Horacio Levy, European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Vienna, Austria Christine Lietz, Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna, Austria Rachel Lloyd, The Australian Treasury, Parkes, Australia John Micklewright, University of Southampton, UK Brian Nolan, Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, Ireland Shelley Phipps, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada Martin Ravallion, World Bank, Washington DC David Sahn, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA Sylke Schnepf, University of Southampton, UK Bernd Sussmuth, Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany Holly Sutherland, University of Essex, UK Neil Warren, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Robert K. von Weizsacker, Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany Christopher T. Whelan, Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, Ireland Frances Woolley, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Stephen Younger, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA